Music for Thanksgiving

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a body of Thanksgiving music as expansive as Christmas music? There is!! Psalm settings–there are zillions of great ones, and we Mormons mostly don’t know them at all. So many great things to discover–start here!

Two settings by Hugo Distler:

(not a great performance–youtube provides choirs with not-too-vibrato-y sopranos, reasonable rhythmic intensity, bearable German diction, and decent intonation, but not all at the same time)

I had a thanksgiving playlist this year that I really enjoyed. It wasn’t quite as classical as this, but I enjoyed bob Dylan’s “every grain of sand” and Dayenu, “what a wonderful world”,
Bing singing “count your blessings instead of. Sheep….that kind of thing I enjoyed it. Maybe next year. I’ll look for more classical selections.

Kulturblog

Time to update Susan’s post from August of 07. “They say that these are not the best of times, But they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.” -Billy Joel, Summer Highland Falls

NOTE: This is an essay I wrote as an undergraduate at the University of Utah almost thirty years ago. I am republishing it here as a remembrance of my favorite professor, Mark Strand, upon the occasion of his passing. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live… […]